Order of Leo Tolstoy Books
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a Russian author who is best known for his novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina. His works falls into the realist fiction genre, looking at what it was like to live in the same surroundings as he did. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest novelists of all time.
Tolstoy would become a published author in 1852 with the autobiographical novel Childhood as well as the short story The Raid. Below is a list of Leo Tolstoy’s novels in order of when they were originally published:
Publication Order of Autobiographical Novels
| Childhood | (1852) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Boyhood | (1854) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Youth | (1856) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| War and Peace | (1867) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Anna Karenina | (1877) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Resurrection | (1899) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Decembrists | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Publication Order of Leo Tolstoy Fables Books
| What Men Live by and Other Tales | (1885) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| How Much Land Does a Man Need? and Other Stories | (1886) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ivan the Fool | (1886) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Candle | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Godson | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Wisdom of Children | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Two Old Men | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Esarhaddon, And Other Tales | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Where Love is There God is Also | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Plays
| The Power of Darkness | (1886) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Light That Shines in the Darkness | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Man Who Was Dead and the Cause of It All | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Living Corpse | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Fruits of Enlightenment | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| What Then Must We Do? | (1391) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Confession | (1880) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Gospel in Brief | (1883) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| What I Believe | (1884) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| On Life and Essays on Religion | (1887) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The First Step: on vegetarianism | (1892) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Kingdom of God Is Within You | (1893) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bethink Yourselves! | (1904) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Calendar of Wisdom | (1906) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tolstoy on Shakespeare | (1906) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Law of Love and the Law of Violence | (1909) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Slavery of Our Times | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Guy De Maupassant | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Why Do Men Stupefy Themselves? | (1975) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Christianity and Patriotism | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| What Is to Be Done? and Life | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Church and State and Other Essays | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Christian Teaching | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Four Gospels Harmonized and Translated by Leo Tolstoy | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Religion and Morality | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| What is Art? | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| The Sebastopol Sketches | (1855) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Twenty-three Tales | (1907) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| War: An Anthology | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Magical Realist Fiction | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Famous and Curious Animal Stories | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Horse & Pony Stories | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| On Suicide: Great Writers on the Ultimate Question | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| 50 Classic Novellas | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Selected Stories by Leo Tolstoy | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Letters to Change the World: From Pankhurst to Orwell | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Writers: Their Lives and Works | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Following the Call: Living the Sermon on the Mount Together | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Best Russian Short Stories | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Great Russian Short Stories | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Greatest Tales of Regency Romance | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Dover Anthology of Classic Christmas Stories | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |